top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-10

Scammed

https://medium.com/matter/f4a5d98a4f51/?attempt=2

12 years ago

Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=08676045&OS=PN/08676045&RS=PN/08676045

12 years ago

Are you paid to look busy?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-says-notorious-occupy-academic-job-exist/

12 years ago

Google Maps Has Forsaken Us

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/10/google-maps-has-forsaken-us/

12 years ago

Reverse Engineering for Beginners

https://github.com/dennis714/RE-for-beginners

12 years ago

How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment

http://priceonomics.com/how-a-lawsuit-over-hot-coffee-helped-erode-the-7th/

12 years ago

‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/

12 years ago

We scraped the World Bank's website

http://www.cgdev.org/publication/we-just-ran-twenty-three-million-queries-world-banks-website-working-paper-362

12 years ago

Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2014/05/05/protecting-net-neutrality-and-the-open-internet/

12 years ago

The $13 Billion Mystery Angels

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/three-mysterious-philanthropists-fund-fourth-largest-u-dot-s-dot-charity#p1

12 years ago

The Unix Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

12 years ago

Rich text editing with WriteLatex

https://www.writelatex.com/blog/81#.U268SK1dVGl

12 years ago

Color for the Colorblind

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/09/color-for-the-colorblind.html

12 years ago

The Financial Future of Game Developers

http://www.raphkoster.com/2014/05/07/the-financial-future-of-game-developers/

12 years ago

How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice

http://www-refresh.vice-motherboard-test.appspot.com/blog/how-a-german-soda-became-hackers-fuel-of-choice

12 years ago

Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-09/federal-agents-seek-to-loosen-rules-on-hacking-computers.html

12 years ago

The Case Against Time Warner-Comcast Just Got Stronger

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/net-neutrality-comcast-level3,news-18739.html

12 years ago

MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor

http://openmirage.org/

12 years ago

Royalty statements of a Grammy-nominated artist

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/04/03/streamingstatements

12 years ago

Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases

http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html

12 years ago

How We Get Tall

http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/how-we-get-tall/361881/

12 years ago

The .NET Native Tool-Chain

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/09/the-net-native-tool-chain.aspx

12 years ago

The Bro Network Security Monitor

http://www.bro.org/

12 years ago

New Tab Experiments

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-experiments/

12 years ago

Ironies of Automation (1983)

http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html

12 years ago

Scientific computing’s future: Can Haskell, Clojure, or Julia top Fortran?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings-future-can-any-coding-language-top-a-1950s-behemoth/1/

12 years ago

Bit.ly compromised – More Details

http://blog.bitly.com/post/85260908544/more-detail

12 years ago

TagSpaces – Open-source personal data manager

http://www.tagspaces.org/

12 years ago

Homer mystery script contest winner and results

http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2014/05/05/homer-mystery-script-contest-winner-and-results/

12 years ago

‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows

http://news.virginia.edu/content/rice-theory-explains-north-south-china-cultural-differences-study-shows

12 years ago

Astronomers Find Our Sun's Long-Lost Sibling

http://spaceref.com/astronomy/astronomers-find-our-suns-long-lost-sibling.html

12 years ago

What is an appropriate level of Basic Income?

http://hawkins.ventures/post/85265679392/what-is-an-appropriate-level-of-basic-income

12 years ago

Visualizing the Fourth Dimension Using Color

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Puzzles/visualizing.4D/

12 years ago